Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Oct 2006 20:28 UTC, submitted by Görkem Çetin
"For a long time, Linux has been blamed to boot slowly, compared to other modern operating systems. In this article, we are going to focus on a new init system we developed for our Pardus Linux distribution, Mudur, together with other initiatives that are worth mentioning. Mudur is written from scratch in Python with simplicity, speed and maintainability in mind. It isn't a replacement for the /sbin/init command like some other alternatives, nor just a parallel script executor. Mudur greatly simplified our boot process, making it faster and more flexible. Authors look forward for future boot process research for further improvement and optimizations."
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2005-07-08
"Limiting Resource Is IO, Not CPU"
Quite wrong. People has already (Suse, etc) tried to preload absolutely *everything* ie: optimizing the IO as much as it could be optimized.
Result: The system still was booting up slowly. Reason: even if optimizing the I/O gains a lot of seconds, what makes linux be behind windows/mac os x in this field is the fact that the linux bootup process is just doing way too many things. Not just in the scripts, but in X.org, gdm, gnome, etc. Pardus can't make fast slow software, and many software that is used in bootup is slow in the linux land. See the "why userspace sucks" talk from dave jones. This is why people is optimizing gnome's startup, etc.